Guide for collars.



M. TILLIE. GUIDE FOR GOLLARS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 22, 1908.

Patented May 10, 1910.

ANDREW a GRAHAM co, PHVT0 L|THOGRAPHERS wAsumswuflOn 'tl'lrTTTEllTMARSHALL TILLIE, OF LONDONDERIt-Y, IRELAND.

GUIDE FOR ooLLAns.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Mnnsrmnn TILLIE, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, residing at Foyle Factory, Londonderry, Ireland, have inventeda certain new and useful improved Guide for Collars, of. which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved guide for collars for use inconnection with button hole sewing machines such as are used in themanufacture of collars.

By means of this invention the separate operation of marking by hand ofthe position of the button holes in collars, before inserting same inthe button hole machine, is obviated, and a considerable saving in timeand labor is thereby effected; moreover the position of the button holeis more accurately indicated than by the methods hitherto generallyadopted.

Under my invention I provide a guide plate or attachment, preferably,constructed of sheet metal which forms a gage and can be readilyclamped, screwed, or secured in any other convenient manner to thebutton-hole machine. This guide plate is provided with a flange orprojection against which the collar to be operated on is placed and itis so arranged that, when it is secured in position, it permits of thecutter bar, chisel, or the like of the button hole machine first passingthrough the collar to make the opening therein and thereafter permitsthe subsequent operation of stitching to be performed without in any wayinterfering with same or in some cases the button hole is stitched firstand thereafter out.

In order that my invention may be properly understood I have hereuntoappended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon l have shown anordinary button hole machine of the Singer pattern with guide plates orgages adapted for use when making button holes in the ends of folded ordouble collars.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the buttonhole machine with the improvedgages or attachments thereon. Fig. 2 is a plan view ofthe same with themachine head removed to show the gages. Fig. 3 is another plan viewshowing part of the machine table with the gages thereon and showing, indotted lines, the two ends of a collar placed in the gages.

On the drawings the same reference letters wherever repeated indicatethe same parts.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 22, 1908.

Patented May 1U, 19ft).

Serial No. 454,228.

The improved guide plates a and b are, preferably, made of sheet metalsuitably bent and shaped. The plates shown, on the drawings, are adaptedfor the making of button holes in folded or double collars and consisteach of a flat metal plate having an upturned edge or flange againstwhich the end of the collar is slid. As will be seen at- Fig. 3 theplate a is of elongated form with the edge or flange a shaped so as tocorrespond with the shape of the end of the collar f indicated by thedotted lines while the plate I) is of a bent form with an angled partmade with the upturned edge or flange 6 which determines the position ofthe collar end P.

The plates (1 and b are placed at the left hand and right handrespectively of the cutter bar or chisel g and needle it so as tofacilitate the insertion of the ends f and f of the collar indicated bydotted lines. The plates at and b are removably and adjustably held inposition on the table 0, of the machine (5, by means of screws or studsor the like 6, and they are so shaped, as before stated, that, with theaid of the flange a or (3 as the case may be, the end f or f of thecollar 7 (see Fig. 3) in which the button hole is to be pierced andstitched, or stitched and pierced, is readily and accurately placedinto, and held in, the re quired position ready for the cutter bar orchisel g of the machine to pierce it at the right place.

When making the button holes, one end (P) of the collar is pushed on tothe plate at until its end abuts against the edge or flange a when it isheld in position and the cutting and needle mechanism of the machine isthen operated so as to out a hole 9 and thereafter sew it in the usualman ner or, as already explained, the sewing operation may be performedfirst and the cutting operation afterward. Then the other end (f of thecollar is pushed on to the plate Z) until its end abuts against the edgeor flange b when this end has a hole cut and sewn by the usual mechanismof the machine. It will be seen that the shape of the edges or flanges(1 b retains the ends of the collar band in the correct position. Thecollar is, preferably, held by the operator so that the two ends thereofface the cutter bar and needle, and thus, immediately one end has beenoperated on, the other can be instantly inserted into its guide and thebutton hole formed in the usual manner.

The plates a and 6 do not in any way interfere with the working of themachine, the cutter bar or chisel g and the needle being left quite freeto perform their functions when the machine is working.

Having now fully described my invention what I claim and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is In a device of the character described, aplurality of plates adapted to be secured above the feed plate of abuttonhole sewing machine, a transverse flange on one of said plates, acurved flange forming a continuation of said flange, said flangestogether conforming to one end of a turn- 15 down collar, and means onanother of said plates conforming to the other end of said collar,whereby said plates are adapted to guide a turn-down collar.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 20 in presence of twowitnesses.

MARSHALL TILLIE.

lVit-nesses PHILIP OHAGAN, ANDREW HAMILTON.

